Saturday, December 28, 2013

(Traditional Catholic Priest) Jesus never said; “Love the sinner, hate the sin”, but; “For I
have not come to call the just, but sinners”. Jesus came to call us
sinners to repent. He does not accept sinners so that they can continue
to sin. Sin is a terrible offense against God and offends Him greatly.

“He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” 1 John 2: 4.

It was St. Augustine who said; “For this reason, the man who lives by God’s standards and not by man’s, must needs be a lover of good, and it follows that he must hate what is evil.
Further, since no one is evil by nature, but anyone who is evil is
evil because of a perversion of nature, the man who lives by God’s
standards has a duty of perfect hatred towards those who are evil; that
is to say, he should not hate the person because of the fault, nor
should he love the fault because of the person. He should hate the fault, but love the man. And when the fault has been cured there will remain only what he ought to love, nothing that he should hate.”

The
whole idea of accepting homosexual lust and the adultery of remarried
couples living together goes against calling sinners to repentance. It
is pleasing man and offending God.

As
a priest who councils hundreds of people, I see the horrible
consequences of every sin. An example is what I heard last week.

A 15 year old boy came to me because he was depressed and had no one
to talk to. He was depressed because his 15 year old girlfriend was
going to be put in a foster home. It all began with sin.

She has been living with her uncle and aunt. Her aunt, behind the
back of her uncle, had allowed her to sneak out to be with this young
man. When the uncle found out about the dishonesty, he started the
divorce against the aunt. So the girlfriend has to move to a foster
home.

She ended up living with her uncle and aunt because her mother had
committed adultery and when her dad found out he committed suicide. Her
mother then hooked up with another man who ended up continuously rape
his girlfriend. He is in prison and her mother is in jail. So she has
no place to live other than a foster home because of sin.

How often you and I have to hear, in the Church and outside the
Church, that we have to accept sinners life styles. How often do we
have to hear, as long as it is two consenting adults, sin does not hurt
anyone (heterosexual or homosexual).

This 15 year old girl will have another opinion. If her mother had
not had the consensual adulterous affair, her father would not have
committed suicide. If her mother had not had a consensual affair with
the next man, the girl would never have been raped over and over.

By
my estimation, step fathers in second marriages, have a very high rate
of sexual abuse of their stepdaughters. I hear of it over and over.

There is another family in this parish where the first father was put
in prison for drugs and robbery. The next man, the mother moved in
with, sexually molested her daughter whom I am trying to help get over
it. That man is also in prison for this sin. The rate is so so much
lower where a biological father sexually molests his daughter.

Fathers and mothers married in the Church are whom make a safe home for their children.

So when it comes to accepting homosexual sex and remarried couples,
the Church leaders are forgetting that it offends God greatly and that
these sins hurt the individual, those around them and society as a
whole.

It is, again, the case of misdirected compassion. We traditional
Catholics love the homosexual, the remarried person, but we hate the sin
and the consequences it has caused in the lives of those involved.

Where is the compassion for the men and women and children who have
been hurt by the divorce? Where is the compassion for the girls who
have been sexually abused by their step fathers?

There is another young woman in our confirmation classes. She is for
homosexual relations because her sister is in one. But when I talked
to her mother, she told me that her daughter is always being beaten up
and her cell phone taken away because of the jealousy of her female
lover. Where is the compassion for all those who are abused in these
unnatural relationships?

How
many homosexuals would still be alive if they had never had homosexual
sex that gave them AIDS. Yes we love those who have same sex
attraction. For that reason we want them to stay alive and be healthy.
We do not want them dying or suffering from AIDS.

When will the pope, bishops, priests, religious and lay Catholics
understand that compassion is teaching people that sin offends God and
hurts them and all of society.

We traditional Catholics love sinners. We are also repented sinners
ourselves. But we also love God above all things and believe with all
our hearts that His laws of love are for our good. When they are loved
and obey, there is peace and blessings. When they are despised and
broken, there is interior turmoil and curses.

We are so fortunate to be traditional Catholics and know God’s laws
of Love. We are also so fortunate to have access to His graces through
the Holy Sacraments of Our Catholic Church.

“How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can? But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.”- Pope Benedict XVI

"This past Wednesday I was in part of the hospital that was devoted to people who have memory problems like my father. The people here may have no idea who I am but they light up at the sight of a collar. People who cannot carry on a conversation click “on” and join in prayer as if there were little wrong with them, their faces relaxing in this moment of peace amidst the chaos of illness."- Fr. Valencheck

"The priest's life is not his own. He does not live it for himself and his personal fulfillment, but for the salvation of souls."- Fr. Richtsteig

"I am convinced that if we simply follow the liturgical books, say the texts and carry out the gestures properly, in a style continuous with our tradition, the Church’s liturgy has power the capture minds and hearts and transform them.

I starting forming this conviction before I became a Catholic through my experience of Novus Ordo Masses done in an entirely Roman traditional style, closely following the books.

The late Msgr. Richard Schuler would eventually articulate to me in words what I was experiencing in the church. "Just do what the Council asked… do what the Church asks."

Why is worship well executed according to the mind of the Church so effective?

Christ is the true Actor in the sacred action of the Church’s worship. He makes our hands and voices His own as He raises our petitions and offerings to the Father for His glory and our salvation.

Christ’s Holy Church has determined the way by which we may have this encounter with mystery in the liturgy, be taken up in the sacred action.

Although we have the right to our Rite celebrated as the Church desires, liturgy is not about me or us or even you in the pews." - Fr. Zuhlsdorf

"After celebrating Mass facing the Lord I can report these favorable effects from the priest's point of view:

1. I don't have to worry about where to look
2. I don't have to worry about what my face looks like
3. I can weep at the beauty and wonder of it all without concern
4. I can worship more freely and fully
5. I feel more at one with the people of God
6. I am on a journey to God with the people
7. I am not the focus of attention
8. The elevation of the host and the Ecce Agnus Dei have become more of a focus
9. I feel more part of the great tradition
10. I can't see who's not paying attention and feel I have to do something to get their attention back." - Fr. Longenecker

"My rector in Denver, when he was a young priest, was eating dinner at his secretary's house, a widow from Sicily. Thinking he was polite he said, 'If you wish you can call me Michael.' She stopped, put her hand on her hip, and, pointing at him with her wooden spoon, said, 'Don't think I call you Father because I think you're better than me! I call you Father to remind you who you're supposed to be and how you're going to be judged by our Lord!' He passes that lesson on to all his seminarians."- Fr. Andrew

Decalogue Against Temptation

1. Do not forget that the devil exists.
2. Do not forget that the devil is a tempter.
3. Do not forget that the devil is very intelligent and astute.
4. Be vigilant concerning your eyes and heart. Be strong in spirit and virtue.
5. Believe firmly in the victory of Christ over the tempter.
6. Remember that Christ makes you a participant in His victory.
7. Listen carefully to the word of God.
8. Be humble and love mortification.
9. Pray without flagging.
10. Love the Lord your God and offer worship to Him only.